18.9 Oddities

These modules are probably also obsolete, or just not very useful.

bisect.py - Bisection algorithms (this is actually useful at times)

dump.py - Print python code that reconstructs a variable

find.py - find files matching pattern in directory tree

fpformat.py - General floating point formatting functions - obsolete

grep.py - grep

mutex.py - Mutual exclusion - for use with module sched

packmail.py - create a self-unpacking Unix shell archive

poly.py - Polynomials

sched.py - event scheduler class

shutil.py - utility functions usable in a shell-like program

util.py - useful functions that don't fit elsewhere

zmod.py - Compute properties of mathematical "fields"

tzparse.py - Parse a timezone specification (unfinished)